On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Mats Brorsson wrote: > I have problems getting Fedora core 1 to activate my wireless LAN adapter. > It's a Lucent Wavelan Silver, now known as Orinoco Silver, card. In bets > case, nothing really happens, in most cases it hangs the system totally. My > machine is a Packard Bell EasyNote M5 laptop. > > I'm new to Linux and don't really know where to start looking for a > solution. > > Any ideas on how to solve this are appreciated. Perhaps you have some hardware issues - either with the card - or with pcmcia? You could also try using 'wvlan_cs' driver instead of the default 'orinoco_cs' driver. This can be done by chaging the entry in /etc/pcmcia/config as: card "Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter" version "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE" #bind "orinoco_cs" bind "wvlan_cs" Do you swap in other pcmcia network cards? There could be entries in /etc/modules.conf such as "alias eth0 driver" . Such entries could cause wrong driver to get loaded when the lucent card is inserted [verifyable by '/sbin/lsmod']. If so, I'll recommend removing these entries - and also 'HWADDR' binding in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 I've used this card for a very long time (I still have it - but its not my primary card) Satish
